The Messiah Complex: A chilling story with biblical implications - Lawder, Simon
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Author's note The idea for The Messiah Complex emerged from a serious look at faith-based terrorism, which we, in the West, tend to associate uniquely with Islamists. The fact is that some fundamentalist Christian sects are just as militant, just as ruthless, and present just as great a threat to society. Allow me to demonstrate. In a small English town, a group of Muslim refugees suddenly go on the rampage. The attack bears similar hallmarks to two incidents in the US days earlier. Dr Patrick Cameron, a medical researcher, is asked to investigate. He spots something odd in the rioters' brain…mehr

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Author's note The idea for The Messiah Complex emerged from a serious look at faith-based terrorism, which we, in the West, tend to associate uniquely with Islamists. The fact is that some fundamentalist Christian sects are just as militant, just as ruthless, and present just as great a threat to society. Allow me to demonstrate. In a small English town, a group of Muslim refugees suddenly go on the rampage. The attack bears similar hallmarks to two incidents in the US days earlier. Dr Patrick Cameron, a medical researcher, is asked to investigate. He spots something odd in the rioters' brain scans but, hours later, it's disappeared. Were these people programmed to turn violent? As a wave of similar attacks spreads to other countries, large crowds, fearing that extremist Islam has now declared all-out war on Christianity, pour onto the streets, calling on their dithering governments to retaliate. Cameron's enquiries reveal something quite different - fundamentalists who believe they have been called by Christ to launch a holy war against Islam. Cameron and his wife, a practising Christian herself, are sent in to destroy the plot before it can reach its horrifying climax. Whatever that may be.
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Simon Lawder's career has brought him into close contact with a wide variety of leaders in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He uses extensive observation and learning to inform his work. Each of his Patrick Cameron stories addresses one of today's Big Unanswered Questions. I want my stories to set the reader thinking, not to frighten them but to stir up debate. Asking a big moral question in the context of a conspiracy thriller, with a fair dusting of rather outrageous characters, is quite a challenge but it's great fun to write. A former advertising agency CEO, leadership coach and international business school lecturer, Simon writes from his home in mid-Somerset, where his insatiable appetite for great food, Bath Rugby and poking his nose into local issues has earned him a mixed reputation. His partner Catriona looks on bewildered.